Strange People I Have KnownAndy McSmithLabel: Biteback PublishingDescription: Westminster and Whitehall are secret worlds hidden to most. But working as a lobby journalist former Labour Party staffer Andy McSmith has had exclusive access to our top politicians for decades. Here he shares his personal encounters with the great and the good of the British political landscape revealing what they are really like behind the scenes. With witty and perceptive flair he describes encounters such as flying to Tokyo with Margaret Thatcher the last Prime Minister who would walk fearlessly into a room full of journalists unprotected by special advisers; dining with Sir Edward Heath a man who knew how to hold a grudge in his home in Salisbury; observing Gordon Brown and Tony Blair as new MPs sharing a cramped office in Parliament and collaborating like brothers; and working with Boris Johnson back when he had an ambition to be something more than just a journalist.Filled with vivid portraits of those at the heart of British politics over the past forty years Strange People I Have Known is a memoir of a life well lived and an insider's account of the inner workings of government.
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